This is Chesterton's first book. Both rhymes and sketches are by Chesterton.Quarter off-white buckram cloth on orange paper. The front board has a black border in which there is a sketch of a gentleman riding a stick pony as well as text indicating the title and author. 102 pages with ads in the back. 24 Full page illustrations by Chesterton. No dust wrapper as issued.Boards have edge wear all around. Spine slightly sunned. No ownership marks. Tight binding. VG.Full refund if not satisfied. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien & the Inklings. View More...
Quarter bound cream boards, grey spine with gilt title. Illustrated dust jacket, color graphics, gilt title front and spine, sticker residue on rear. This book is from the library of Orville Swindoll who was a prominent missionary to Argentina. His label is on fly leaf. He was the older brother of Chuck Swindoll. CONDITION: Clean unmarked text, like new condition; slight shelf wear to upper jacket edge. [xviii] 311 pp. Full refund if not satisfied. View More...
FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER. Sullivan 34. Privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn and their friends. This copy inscribed to Fitzroy Carrington (famous expert on prints) by Brooks. Inscribed: "For Fitzroy Carrington with the kind regards of Edmund D. Brooks. Minneapolis. February 1st 1915." Quarter tan cloth on tan paper with black text. 19 pages of text followed by ten tipped-in photos. Book is VG with light bumps and wear around the boards. The inscription is on the first front end paper and takes most of the page. Below the inscription is an owner's na... View More...
FIRST EDITION, 1912. Simplicity and Tolstoy by G. K. Chesterton. Also includes Francis; William Morris and His School; Thomas Carlyle. This selection printed from Twelve Types of 1902. Sullivan A. 4. Bound in Arts & Crafts style suede leather with a floral border around gilt text. 85 pp. Uncut fore edge and gilt top edge.
CONDITION: Near fine. Covers curl out a bit.
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Hardcover. Brown quarter cloth cover with beige paper. Oblong. Frontispiece. Illustrated. 114pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Copy is new. Full refund if not satisfied. FROM THE DUST JACKET: "G.K. Chesterton first came to notice as a flamboyant, swordstick-toting journalist in the heyday of London's 'Fleet Street; during the long golden afternoon of late Victorian England. Between the two world wars, he even published his own 'journal of opinion,' G. K.'s Weekly. he was also a novelist, critic, playwright, poet, polemicist, humorist, and debater of note. But he had originally been trained as an ar... View More...
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1905. The Club of Queer Trades, by Gilbert K. [G. K.] Chesterton. The first American edition which came out in April, 1905 whereas the first British edition came out in March, 1905. Sullivan A.8. Green cloth boards with an off white "sign" on the front cover and green text on the "sign." 270 pp.
CONDITION: The book is VG being a bit cocked and edge wear.
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London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1922. First edition. Sullivan A55. Hubin 159.Green cloth boards with black text. 308 pp.Fine condition. A really beautiful copy. Lacking dust wrapper. Full refund if not satisfied. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien & the Inklings$275 View More...
This specially printed edition for the Catholic Book Club is the same as the first American edition. Violet cloth boards with title and author printed against a gold rectangle in the upper left of the front cover. 269 pp. Dust wrapper is light violet with art in black and text in red. The book is in very pleasing condition, no writing in the book and the binding is tight. The dust wrapper is VG with minor chips, one of which rises from the bottom of the spine into the text. Full refund if not satisfied. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien & the Inklings. View More...
